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When exam time rolls around, Vania Mirdavoudi isn't huddled in a student apartment with her roommates, subsisting on ramen noodles and fretting over the utility bill in between study sessions. Instead, the 21-year-old is living in her parents' home, where someone is always happy to check in on her and offer food or a ride to the library — and she's grateful for every minute of it.
"When you live at home, they're always around and if you ever have any difficulties, even if you don't want to talk to them about it, they're still there so you don't ever feel like you're alone," says the fourth-year University of Ottawa biomedical science student. "I think if you have the opportunity to live at home, even for an extra year or two years, cherish it, because once you move out, coming back isn't ever the same."
This generation of young adults who boomerang back to the family nest — or stay longer before finally taking flight — has been lampooned everywhere from Hollywood movies to the cover of The New Yorker magazine, but experts say this expanding trend has been mislabelled as dysfunctional when it's now quite normal.
According to census figures, 43.5 per cent of Canada's four million young adults aged 20 to 29 were living with their parents in 2006, the most recent year for which information is available, up from 41.1 per cent five years earlier and 32.1 per cent two decades before. Among 20- to 24-year-olds, 60.3 per cent were under their parents' roof, while 26 per cent of those aged 25 to 29 were living at home.
It's less common for young adults to live with a significant other under their parent's roof, but 11.3 per cent of twenty-something women and 7.5 per cent of young men were living at home as part of a couple.
And despite cliches about frustrated parents abandoning their renovation or travel plans when a child sticks around longer than planned, there's evidence parents and their adult children actually enjoy the arrangement.
"Your kids may be doing it, but the kids down the street are also doing it, so it's not seen as a failure to launch. Thirty, 40 years ago, it was a rare enough event where it was kind of weird," says Monica Boyd, a sociology professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. "That stigma of failure to launch, in general having a young adult at home, is not seen that way. We've had a sea-change."
Two in 10 Canadians (21 per cent) think it's "perfectly fine" for adult children to move back home, an Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Postmedia News/Global TV shows, while 71 per cent say grown children should only return to their parents' house "if their circumstances absolutely require them to." Just eight per cent say it's never okay for them to go back to the nest.
The two big factors driving the rise of the so-called boomerang generation are increasing levels of post-secondary education that can stretch well into the twenties and a job market that often offers only temporary or tenuous employment for young workers, Boyd says. Fifty years ago, people would get some high-school education, find a job with the expectation of working their way up through the ranks, then get married when they could afford to support a family, she says. Now, that freeway has been replaced by "multiple pathways to adulthood."
"You have the tendency to portray this negatively in the media, but you have it occurring at such levels in Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia, that it's very clear it's part of what being a young adult is all about," she says. "What is almost happening — particularly for those in their early 20s — is that not to be living at home is what is unusual."
In an upcoming paper, Boyd finds that young adults whose families are from "individualistic" cultural backgrounds that emphasize personal decisions and well-being — such as those of the United States, United Kingdom, France Germany and Canada itself — are less likely to live with their parents. Grown children from "familial" cultures that highly prize family ties and well-being, including those of southern Mediterranean countries such as Italy and Portugal and Asian countries like China, India and Pakistan are much more likely to live with their parents, and those differences seem to persist even after many years in Canada.
"There is this argument that you leave home for marriage, that you don't move out on your own, because it's almost as if it's an insult: 'Why wouldn't you want to stay with your parents? Your parents can offer you advantages, they can help you,'" she says.
For immigrant families in general, the propensity for adult children to live with their parents declines the longer their family has been in Canada, Boyd found. Some of that is driven by cultural norms about young adults staying at home, but newly arrived families may also need to pool resources to get by, she says, and it's more common among immigrants for young adults to pitch in financially when they live at home.
Parents and adult children living under the same roof can be quite a positive experience, says Boyd, but the dysfunctional element kicks in when either party "refuses to act like an adult." The older generation might forget to stop parenting and be guilty of infantilizing their grown offspring, she says, or the younger set might treat their parents' home like a full-service hotel.
"The reality is, assuming you've got reasonably mature people living with each other, it can be an opportunity to get to know each other as adults rather than as parents and children," she says.
And that could have implications for eldercare down the road. Relating as adults could pave the way emotionally for adult children to provide more help to their parents as they age, Boyd says, but it also raises the still-unanswered question of whether it seriously dents the finances of parents who provide protracted support to help their kids get established.
Michael Rosenfeld, an associate professor of sociology at Stanford University and author of The Age of Independence, believes education, travel, career-building, roommates and delayed marriage have created a new "in-between" life-stage for young adults. He argues that today's young adults are actually more autonomous than any generation before them, pointing out that 50 years ago, people married much younger and "inevitably" lived with their parents until they set up their own household.
"Adults always think the young people are a bunch of slackers; every generation of adults thinks that," he says. "I think there's a little bit of self-flattery involved in this. A lot of parents of 25-year-olds would like to think the 25-year-olds really need them and think about them all the time. In fact, it might not be the case."
Mirdavoudi in Ottawa says many of her friends have stayed at home because they're lucky to have access to large universities in their hometown, and it's particularly common among those who share her South Asian heritage (her mother is Indian and her father Iranian). When she goes out with her friends — or returns late and accidentally sets off the alarm — she always has to keep her parents in mind, but she says it's a good trade-off.
"I'm not going to lie, I'm very happy I stayed at home," she says.
She plans to move to a new city and get her own place when she starts her master's degree, but she doesn't rule out the idea of returning home for a time.
"It was her decision to stay at home. We of course gave her some feedback on some of the advantages if she stayed at home, such as having the comfort of her parents' home and eating good food," says her father Seyed, laughing. "If she wants to continue (her education) — and I'm hoping she will — she can go anywhere she wants and she'll have more experience and be more ready."
Join reporter Shannon Proudfoot and Clarence Lochhead, executive director of the Vanier Institute of the Family, on www.canada.com/news/family-portraits Thursday Oct. 7 at noon ET for a live chat about the evolving meaning of family in Canada.
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Brown-headed cowbirds are plain Janes in the birding world, brown on brown.
They don't look like much, but cowbirds are nonetheless impressive. They found a clever solution to a serious problem.
Once known as buffalo birds, flocks of cowbirds followed the huge herds of bison long since gone. The birds ate insects disturbed by bison feet, and grain found in the prairies.
But the grocery store kept walking away. So cowbirds became brood parasites, laying their eggs in the nest of other birds. In fact, cowbirds have been called North America's most successful brood parasites. (Cuckoos do it, too.)
Lay eggs in an available nest. Let someone else raise the baby while we move on. Simple as that.
While the cowbird has solved its problem, in turn it has left unsolved problems, particularly for the host birds. We're one of them.
We took away the buffalo but substituted other herbivores. From day one we have altered the landscape to widely extend suitable cowbird habitat. Cowbirds now have access to the nests of bird species previously unknown to them.
On the prairies, other grassland birds co-evolved with cowbirds, evening their survival odds. Today, cowbirds are known to use the nests of more than 200 North American bird species. Most of them play a defensive game of catch-up.
Cowbirds perch and watch and wait. When a nest is located and its owner is out for a moment, the cowbird swoops down to lay an egg.
Because it doesn't incubate eggs, a female cowbird can lay them by the dozen, like a chicken. A hen cowbird can produce up to 40 eggs a season.
Overkill? Not quite. Host birds, in many cases, have learned to recognize cowbird eggs, almost always of a different color and size than those of the nest owner. Cowbird eggs are rolled out of the nest, they're punctured, they're buried beneath a nest rebuilt.
One researcher found a yellow warbler nest that had been rebuilt six times, seven layers of nest containing 11 cowbird eggs.
The edge still goes to the cowbird. Its eggs need a shorter incubation period than most host birds. Cowbirds hatch first, almost always larger than the host's hatchlings. Young cowbirds eat more. They can monopolize food delivery, starving host hatchlings. Cowbirds will push out nest mates.
In two years, a female cowbird might produce 80 eggs. Because host birds are learning to combat this intrusion, and because nature always takes its toll, only 3 percent of those 80 eggs are likely to become adult birds.
That comes to 2.4 birds raised per cowbird pair. Two is the replacement number. The annual fraction is equal to one additional cowbird every two years. Cowbird numbers grow. Numerous and invasive beyond their historic habitat, they're a problem for other species, reducing nesting success.
In the case of Kirtland's warbler, a species found only in Michigan and Wisconsin, the issue is critical. Kirtland's has highly specific jack pine habitat needs. Loss of habitat combined with cowbird parasitism threatens this species. Cowbirds in those nesting areas are trapped and eliminated.
Other host species are not so fortunate. They fight on their own, many of them slowly learning to live successfully with cowbirds, a species that millions of years ago started solving its own survival problem.
Lifelong birder Jim Williams can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Join his conversation about birds at www.startribune.com/wingnut.

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In her own words: living with premenstrual syndrome (PMS)
Regina is a 33-year-old stay-at home mom. She home-schools her three children, takes care of animals (2 dogs, 4 guinea pigs, 5 chickens), and has been married for 13 years.
What was your first sign that something was wrong? What symptoms did you experience?
I first knew that I wasn't feeling myself about four years ago, after the birth of our third child. I had a hard time making decisions and always felt a little disoriented and confused. I would also occasionally wake up with anxiety attacks, and felt emotional and bloated most of the month.
While we were trying to get pregnant with the kids, I always kept a daily chart of my cycles and moods. I continued this chart, and began to notice a discernible monthly pattern to my moods. Two or three days after the ending of my cycle, I would feel progressively worse until the onset of my next cycle. It seemed I only had a few good days a month when I would feel in control and normal. Over the past four years, the symptoms grew worse, and so did my fears.
Since I didn't understand what was happening, I was afraid to tell my friends and family, which only worsened my anxiety. I was also afraid to discuss these symptoms with my OB/GYN, because I was afraid he would prescribe an anti-depressant, and I didn't want to go on medication.
What was the diagnosis experience like?
I saw my OB/GYN doctor first—I brought it up during my yearly routine exam. I was pleased that he was very sympathetic and a good listener, and quick to check my thyroid first for imbalances. But after the tests came back normal, my fears were realized when his next course of action was to prescribe Sarafem (another form of Prozac) for my symptoms. I took it for two weeks, but wasn't happy taking it. I felt there had to be other options I could try before resorting to medication.
What was your initial and then longer-term reaction to the diagnosi s?
At first, I was not sure the diagnosis was correct, since we had not discussed other aspects of my medical history. However, after doing my own research, I eventually agreed that the diagnosis of PMS seemed accurate. I felt great relief in finding some kind of name for this emotional and physical roller coaster, and realizing I had choices.
How do you manage your condition?
At this time I take good care of myself and carefully monitor how I'm feeling and what affects me at different times. I read about PMS and some of the herbs that help. I educate myself about new treatments and foods that help diminish some of the symptoms. While not all of my symptoms are alleviated, I feel they are more managed and under control. Things that used to send me spinning, now cause me to just sit down and work them out. I feel happier, and my desire to enjoy past hobbies has returned. I don't feel I will ever necessarily be free from my PMS until after menopause, but I don't have to let it control me and take away who I really want to be.
Have you made any lifestyle or dietary changes in response to your condition?
I walk every morning for at least 30 minutes in the fresh air and bright sunshine. I have cut out almost all caffeine and many, but not all, sugars. I want to manage my eating habits but not be a slave to them. (Every gal has to have a piece of cheesecake once in a while.) I am good about grabbing a handful of crispy spinach instead of crunchy chips and try to munch on a carrot over a candy bar. I've learned to love my herbal teas, which I choose for their relaxing and soothing ingredients. I take a good multi-vitamin every day, and have incorporated some new foods and ingredients for overall health, such as milled flax seed.
I also try to find time to relax and do things that I enjoy doing. You'd be surprised how therapeutic a milk and herbal bath with a glowing candle can be. Perhaps someday I may need to look at the prospects of medication, but this would be a last resort.
Did you seek any type of emotional support?
I did seek emotional support cautiously and carefully. I didn't like to admit that I was struggling with PMS because it was such a common social joke, and I didn't want anyone to think I couldn't handle myself emotionally. I was afraid of rejection and misunderstanding. I would ask general questions about PMS in a group of women, but wouldn't say that I needed the information for myself.
I also didn't really bring it up with my husband, even though we have a great relationship. Somehow, I didn't feel he would understand or even be able to help, simply because he isn't a woman. He is such a logical person that I felt sure he would think there was some logical explanation and solution to my problem. PMS simply doesn't work that way and is much more tricky and a master of disguise. I felt he would worry about me and would feel so helpless because he wouldn't know how to relate.
Did/does your condition have any impact on your family?
It was always important to me that PMS didn't get in the way with my relationship with my kids and husband. Of course, I was naive to think that they didn't notice. But I have taken steps to be honest with them, and overall, I don't think it affects them a whole lot.
I chose to be open with them after the diagnosis because I wanted their support. I wanted the kids to understand why mommy wasn't going to throw every junk food they grabbed into the grocery cart anymore. I also wanted to let them know that I was going to demand some alone time once in a while. I let them all know that I loved them and we could have great times together, but that sometimes, I was going to treat myself to quiet time. They have been great.
I think PMS has brought us closer. I talk more freely about how I'm feeling at a particular time and ask them to be more understanding with me. They feel more open about letting me know when I'm being harsh or just not acting myself. But it has its down sides too. My husband has had to be very understanding many times when I simply cannot seem to get the desire to be intimate. PMS can make you feel very selfish and self-centered at times.
What advice would you give to anyone living with your condition?
PMS is an uncomfortable ride that you are on, but it does not define who you really are. Things to keep in mind are:
- Take care of yourself through nutrition and exercise! Paying attention to food and exercising regularly may help lower your medication dosage, or eliminate the need for medication altogether.
- Do your own research and homework. Don't just rely on your doctor to suggest a plan of treatment without educating yourself on the choices he/she is offering you. Be sure you feel that all options have been explored, and work to find a solution that is as comfortable or drug-free as possible.
- Sometimes medications may be necessary, but you have some work to do on your end, too. You cannot rely on just popping a pill in your mouth every day.
- It's OK to feel emotional, to be angry, to be anxious. But, you don't have to drown in those feelings. You can share, you can talk, you can seek help, and you can gather information.
- Find others who are going through what you are. Sometimes, just knowing that PMS affects so many other women and that you aren't going crazy is a big relief. Just sharing your feelings with someone relieves a lot of pressure. When you discover that another woman with PMS is experiencing some of your same symptoms, it gives you a feeling of camaraderie—that you are both in this fight together. Get out there and help someone else that is just as scared and confused as you were (and sometimes still are), and see how good it makes you feel.


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DRM on music may be dying, but network filtering of copyrighted material is alive and well. In fact, over the next few months, two different filtering initiatives from Big Content could both come to fruition, bringing the magic of Big Brother to colleges and ISPs near you. It's still a contested issue, but the situation has developed to the point where it is at least plausible to imagine ubiquitous network filtering in the US.
College filtering
We've reported before on a Congressional bill that would force US colleges and universities to plan for network filtering and for alternative music and movie download services or face the loss of federal funds. The College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 passed a House committee back in November and could be coming to a vote in the next couple of months. According to the EFF, it could even come to a vote in February.
Under the bill, schools would need to "develop a plan for offering alternatives to illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property as well as a plan to explore technology-based deterrents to prevent such illegal activity."
There's no requirement that schools implement such a plan, but it's not hard to see how the requirement could become law in a future education bill (after all, content owners want more than a "plan," they want action).
For schools that don't want to spend their budget dollars coming up with expensive plans to monitor student traffic, the MPAA stepped in last December like a Christmas angel with an offer of free monitoring software. Called (ambiguously) the "University Toolkit," the software showed that even Big Content has a special place in its Grinchy heart for open-source software... but not so special a place that it knows how to comply with the terms of open-source license agreements.
The software was pulled after an Ubuntu technical board member pointed out that the MPAA was violating the GPL by not making code available. Seth Oster, executive VP and chief communications officer of the MPAA, told Ars at the time that the MPAA was quick to respond because "we take copyright very seriously at the MPAA." The software remains unavailable today.
While the situation was humorous, all it mean is that if the bill passes, universities will need to spend more time and effort evaluating other (paid) solutions in order to comply with the law.
Coming to an ISP near you
Making inroads at colleges and universities would be a big step for groups like the MPAA, but filtering on a truly national level would be far preferable. The MPAA has made no secret of its desire that ISPs take part, and rather amazingly, one of the nation's largest ISPs is interested. In fact, AT&T seems downright enthusiastic about the prospect of sniffing for copyright violations.
While AT&T has yet to reveal how such a filtering regime would function, it has repeatedly confirmed that it is going forward with the technology. Confirmation of those plans at CES made news, and it thrilled people like NBC's Rick Cotton, a lawyer who has led NBC's push for such filtering.
As a sign of just how mainstream the entire debate has become, Cotton and Columbia law professor Tim Wu are squaring off this week in a New York Times blog. In his first post, Cotton argued that technology can actually do a superb job of filtering. Those problems you've heard so much about? Solved. "Digital technology is also capable of great exactitude and flexibility in identifying copyrighted content and targeting infringements with no more intrusiveness than when it screens out viruses and hacker attacks," he wrote.
We may find out if he's right later this year. AT&T has been talking up its plans for some time and sounds ready to pull the trigger soon, though the FCC's new interest in traffic-shaping and monitoring at Comcast might make AT&T proceed with caution.
Filters, filters everywhere
Colleges and consumers are both likely to kick back hard against these sorts of measures, and that could be enough to knock both of them off track. But it won't necessarily do so; both filtering proposals have years of effort behind them, some Congressional support, and the buy-in of major corporations like AT&T. 2008 could be the year that both kinds of filtering become regular features of the Internet landscape in the US.
If a couple of national ISPs and even a minority of universities start filtering this year or the next, the filters could probably examine much of the peer-to-peer traffic passing through the country. If effective, such filters could do much to slow the spread of copyrighted material (for a time), but based on the filtering technology we've seen in the past, we remain skeptical.
Mistakes are bound to occur; as more companies use the Internet and P2P to distribute legitimate content, even a few of these mistakes could lead to charges of anticompetitive behavior and requests for FCC investigations. The blocking of even a few homemade videos sent to friends could run afoul of FCC guidance that suggests all consumers have a right to use their Internet connections for lawful purposes and to run their choice of applications over the network.
The pro-filtering lobby is playing a dangerous game by pushing its way into the ISP space. While sites like YouTube have launched filtering technology of their own, privately-owned sites are generally allowed to run their own operations. Network operators face far more government scrutiny.
2008 might well be the Year of the Filter, but who knows? It might also be the Year of Filtergate. A single major fiasco could even revive the simmering debate over network neutrality regulation and legislation. Stay tuned; it should be quite a spectacle.
Update: A House staffer from the Committee on Education and Labor contacted us to point out that the bill will not jeopardize federal funds for those schools that don't plan for using filtering and for P2P alternatives. The bill says that "each eligible institution participating in any program under this title shall to the extent practicable" do the planning. We're told that despite this requirement, the bill doesn't back it up with any penalties.
"Neither of these two provisions is tied to a school's participation in the federal student aid programs in any way," we're told. "In other words, no school and no student will ever lose funding if a school doesn't make plans to address IP theft, or purchase any programs to do it. And no school will ever lose any federal aid because its students engage in illegal downloading or file-sharing, period."
But schools will face problems with the Department of Education unless they "inform their students about their campus policies on copyright infringement and illegal downloading" and "report their campus policies and procedures for addressing these violations once a year."
So, bottom line: the bill still directs colleges and universities to make plans for playing the filter game, but doesn't penalize them if they don't.


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DIY Racerback Workout Shirt Tutorial
You can print the above and place it next to you while you cut!
– Old t-shirt (I used my old college tshirt! We were Home of the Fighting Poets. Hahahahaha. How threatening :P)
– Pair of scissors
TIME: 15 min
1. Cut away the crew neck the sleeves and the bottom. For the sleeves, you will want to start at the shoulder (you decide how thick you want the strap to be) and cut straight into the chest area. Then curve. If you curve the whole way, it's gonna look weird on you. If you have no idea what I am talking about, no worries, just follow the tutorial, you can always snip away later. Tr to follow my pictures.
2. Clean up the edges. Decide how low you want the neckline to be.
3. Turn the shirt to the back and make a narrower racerback. Then cut a deep V.
4. Take the bottom edge of the shirt that you cut off and cut the seams off so that you're just left with fabric.
5. Stretch it like a maniac. This is fun.
6. You're left with a really cool noodle thing. It's really long too!
7. About 2″ above the bottom of the V tie a know with one edge of the noodle.
8. Wind it round 'n round, then double knot it at the other end too. Cut off loose ends.
9. To make this a hi-low top, lay your shirt sideways and flat. Then starting at about 4-5″ from the front center of the shirt start diagonally cutting down til you reach the back. You'll want to cut straight for a bit at the front center then start creating the diagonal or else you're gonna get a weird arrow shape with you open up.
DONE! Start pulling at the fabric to make rough edges go curly and to make your tank longer.
What a fab way to reuse old shirts as vintage gym fashion! I love it. When you guys make yours, please share it on facebook or tweet it to me @Blogilates.
Wear with a bright bra to make it pop!
Oh and be sure to be the first to pin this to Pinterest! GO!
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The Commerce Department says retail sales rose 1.1 percent in September after a 1.2 percent in August, which was revised higher. Both increases were the largest since October 2010.
Electronics and appliance store sales rose 4.5 percent, in part because Apple released its latest iPhone last month. Sales increased 1.3 percent at auto dealers and 2.5 percent at gas stations, reflecting higher prices. Excluding autos and gas, sales were still up a solid 0.9 percent in September.
There were gains in most areas although department stores saw a 0.2 percent drop following no change in August.


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NEW YORK (AP) The 49ers-Seahawks game that could decide the NFC West is moving to prime time.
The NFL said Monday that San Francisco's matchup with Seattle on Dec. 23 would be on NBC's ``Sunday Night Football.'' The San Diego Chargers and New York Jets were originally in that slot, but both teams have losing records.
Starting in Week 11, the league's flexible scheduling policy allows it to move a more appealing game to Sunday night. This is the first time this season a switch has been made.
The 49ers are 9-3-1 heading into their trip to New England for the first of what will be two straight Sunday night appearances. The Seahawks are 8-5 and play Buffalo in Toronto this weekend.
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"I Have a Website." JPEG version of screenshot from One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op.
One year ago, a system developed by artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied began taking screenshots of now-defunct GeoCities webpages from the late 1990s as they would appear on hardware and software from that time. Every twenty minutes, a new screenshot is automatically uploaded to their Tumblr, One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age Photo Op. Friday marked the one-year anniversary of the project; to celebrate, Espenschied restored the three most reblogged and liked home pages posted there, as tracked by Lialina. This article covers the why and how of this restoration.
It may seem strange to say this about the likes of "Cute Boy Site" or "Divorced Dads Page," but the remains of the GeoCities web hosting service are a vital part of our cultural legacy. In its dial-up heyday, GeoCities was where non-specialist internet users made their first-ever webpages. Today, it exists as a vast, if partial, repository of the anxieties, hopes, and dreams of those creators, and offers a snapshot of the early popular usage of a now-ubiquitous cultural form, the webpage.


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Raft, fish and hike in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.
The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge consists of the western slopes of the Kenai Mountains and forested lowlands bordering Cook Inlet. The lowlands include spruce and birch forests intermingled with hundreds of glacier-fed lakes. The Kenai Mountains rise to more than 6,000 feet creating the southeastern boundary of the refuge. The wildlife refuge is a microcosm of Alaska, with a diverse range of habitat types ranging from the mountains and treeless alpine areas to boreal forests, wetlands, and lakes.
The refuge was established to protect moose populations, Dall sheep, mountain goats, wolves, bald eagles and both brown and black bears. It is also home to a small, but thriving caribou herd and numerous undisturbed spawning grounds for the prolific salmon runs of the Kenai Peninsula. The turquoise waters of the Kenai River serve as our pathway for exploring these wild lands at the river's pace--whether rafting or fishing.
Several of our Alaska vacations include opportunities to explore within the boundaries of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge; our top-rated Kenai Backcountry Lodge, situated along the shoreline of a glacier-carved lake and accessible only by boat, offers an ideal wilderness experience deep within these protected lands.
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Exlore our backyard, the beautiful and wild Chugach National Forest.
The Chugach (pronounced "chew-gatch") National Forest is home to many well-known Alaskan adventure destinations and spans over 5.4 million acres. The Chugach National Forest is the nation's second-largest national forest and the largest contiguous wetland area on the U.S. West Coast.
Our Kenai Riverside Lodge is situated along the shoreline of the famous Kenai River. The Kenai (pronounced keen-eye) draws strength from many tributaries in the Chugach National Forest and boasts an unusually productive watershed that has produced several world record king salmon, as well as huge runs of sockeye salmon, large rainbow trout, and Dolly Varden. This glacier fed river is a unique shade of turquoise-green; its beauty adds to the magic of this diverse ecosystem. The Kenai flows from the Chugach National Forest into the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge just downstream from our Kenai Riverside Lodge, Alaska Wildland Adventures' homebase for many of our Alaska Adventures, Lodge Packages and Kenai Riverside Fishing trips.


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Born in Nicomedia, he held local office and pursued studies with Epictetus, whose lectures he later published. In Greece between 108 and 112 he attracted the friendship of Hadrian, who later adlected him to senatorial rank and after his consulate employed him for six years (131–7) as legate of Cappadocia. Later he retired to Athens, where he held the archonship (145/6).
One of the most distinguished writers of his day, Arrian represented himself as a second Xenophon and adopted a style which fused elements of Xenophon into a composite, artificial (yet outstandingly lucid) diction based on the great masters, Herodotus and Thucydides (2). On Hunting is an explicit revision of Xenophon's monograph in the light of the revolution in hunting brought by the Celtic greyhound; and Xenophon's influence is demonstrable in the short essays he wrote in Cappadocia: Voyage Round the Black Sea, Essay on Tactics, and, most remarkable, Order of Battle against the Alans, which expounds his tactics to repel the incursion of the Alans (135).
Celebrated as a philosopher in his lifetime, Arrian is today mainly known as a historian. His most famous work deals with the age of Alexander 2 the Great. The period after Alexander's death (323–319 bc) was covered expansively in the ten books of Affairs after Alexander (significant fragments of which survive). The only extant history is the so‐called 'Anabasis of Alexander', a history of Alexander in seven books from his accession to his death. A short companion piece, the Indikē, provides a digest of Indian memorabilia, based explicitly upon Megasthenes, Eratosthenes, and Nearchus, and recounts Nearchus' voyage from southern India to Susa. Arrian's work is conceived as a literary tribute to Alexander's achievements, to do for him what Homer had done for Achilles, and the tone is eulogistic, mitigating standard criticisms and culminating in a panegyric of extraordinary intensity. The sources Arrian selected were Ptolemy 1 I and Aristobulus, contemporaries and actors in the events and appropriately favourable to Alexander; and the narrative is worked up from material they provided, supplemented by logoi ('stories'), mostly from late rhetorical sources and chosen for their colour. Arrian's priority was excellence of style, not factual accuracy. So his account is rich in detail and eminently readable, but is marred by demonstrable errors and misunderstandings.
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Tom Cruise may be one of the biggest movie stars in the world, but he's managed to keep his ego in check. According to JJ Abrams, who directed the 50-year-old actor in 2006's Mission Impossible III, the single star epitomizes professionalism in moviemaking.
"Before I started, I called Cameron Crowe, and asked him his advice, since he'd made two movies with Tom [Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky]. He just said, 'Brother, you are going to be spoiled.' I now know he was right. Tom is the hardest-working, most focused, generous, passionate-about-the-form collaborator I could imagine," Abrams tells the May issue of Playboy. "I was a first-time feature director, and before we started shooting Tom said, 'I'm your actor; you're the director.' There was not a day on that movie when Tom was not supportive, encouraging, collaborative, excited. He never mandated anything. He never insisted on things going a certain way."
Abrams continues, "There was nothing I ever asked him to do that he wouldn't do. There were things I asked him not to do because he was so willing to put himself physically in danger. I would be like, 'There's not a f-cking chance you're going through that window. If you get cut. . .' But he was always about the better idea."
The Star Trek Into Darkness director was recently tapped to reboot the Star Wars franchise. The attention put extra attention on Abrams, who prefers to let his movies and TV shows speak for themselves.
"I look at people I know, certainly actors like Tom, who literally cannot go anywhere. That's a miserable thing," the 46-year-old tells Playboy. "I go out all the time, and people don't recognize me at all."
Because he can go unnoticed, women aren't exactly throwing themselves at Abrams. That's fine by him, given that he has three children with wife of 17 years Katie McGrath. "What I usually get isn't a sexual thing. It's usually some dude with hair too long in the back giving me a Vulcan salute or, more recently, saying, 'May the force be with you,'" he says. "I haven't gotten a lot of the more appealing versions you're referring to."
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Singer Leona Lewis was "shocked" when a man allegedly punched her in the head while she was giving out autographs and taking photos during a book singing in London yesterday, her rep said.
The man, who was later arrested, broke away from the line outside the bookstore, lunging at the unsuspecting London-born R&B singer and "punched her in the side of the head," her spokesman told the BBC.
The three-time Grammy Award nominee was promoting her autobiography "Dreams" at the Waterstones bookstore when she signed the alleged attacker's book and "as she looked up, he just punched her," one witness told British news agency.
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"She was running out with her hand over her eye, and I just saw a man on the floor," another witness told the BBC.
"Suddenly, the security all jumped on him and they were trying to pull him out and he was just laughing. He thought it was funny."
The "Bleeding Love" singer sought medical attention but was not seriously hurt. Still, she was "understandably badly shaken," said her spokesman.


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Chances are, someone you know caught the swine flu, but the worst may be over.
A new report from the CDC states that the N1H1 virus afflicted at least 57 million and as many as 84 million Americans since its initial outbreak last April in Mexico. That number represents roughly a quarter of all Americans, and the findings only chronicles data collected through mid-January.
On top of the 57 million infections, N1H1 was responsible for 257,000 hospitalizations and 11,690 deaths.
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The agency said it appears the worst is over. The latest figures show that the bug's blitzkrieg through America is losing steam. According to the CDC, new cases have dropped and we are experiencing "generally low flu activity in the United States." The pandemic reached its apex in terms of new cases last October.
The report shows that the pandemic has disproportionately targeted children and young adults. While seniors usually account for the vast majority of flu victims, they have only contracted 10 percent of all recorded N1H1 cases.


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Musical legacies in Sudbury honoured
The co-ordinator of the annual Kiwanis Music Festival of Sudbury is the 2019 recipient of the Joan Mantle Music Trust Community Award.
Heather Parker will receive the honour at the International Dinner and Silent Auction in support of the Trust on Saturday, April 13. The evening will mark the 11th anniversary of the Joan Mantle Music Trust, which has raised more than $240,000 since its inception.
"Heather Parker works quietly and effectively behind the scenes to ensure that musicians of all ages have an opportunity to perform before adjudicators and live audiences, be acknowledged for their talent, and grow in their musical abilities and aspirations," Ralph McIntosh, chair of the Joan Mantle Music Trust Steering Committee, said in a release.
"The Kiwanis Music Festival of Sudbury is a much anticipated annual event that has a positive and powerful impact on its participants long after the final curtain has closed."
A graduate of Levack District High School, Parker participated in music festivals and theatre productions while growing up in Onaping. A talented pianist, organist and vocalist, she earned her teaching credentials from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
Over the years, Parker has shared her love of music with infants, children, young people and adults. She has provided outstanding musical leadership at St. John's United Church in Levack as organist, hand chime director, music director and adult choir director.
She has accompanied school choirs at Larchwood and Levack public schools, provided musical leadership at St. Gabriel's Villa in Chelmsford, and been a valued member of the Bel Canto Chorus. She has also been a piano instructor, vocal coach, and Kindermusik educator.
"When I was six years old, my parents bought me a piano and asked if I was interested in taking lessons," recalled Stephane Ostrander, now a music teacher at Sudbury Secondary School. "Heather Parker became my piano teacher and every week for the next 13 years I went to Mrs. Parker's house for a lesson.
"I didn't just learn about music and the piano, I learned about communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, determination and discipline. Heather Parker inspired me to be the musican and teacher I am today."
Sylvia Carscadden, the inaugural recipient of the Joan Mantle Music Trust Community Award, also praised Parker.
"Heather Parker has spent her life encouraging students to discover their talents and to grow in their musical accomplishments," she said. "The Kiwanis Festival, as an educational event, has a high profile in our community and provides a venue for learning through performance and adjudication.
"Participation in the Kiwanis Festival is an experience that promotes growth and confidence for young people and adults."
As co-ordinator of the Festival, Parker ensures the 10-day event runs smoothly from start to finish. She also raises an impressive amount of money for scholarships, an important component of the festival.
"Heather tackles all this with poise and a calm demeanor," said Kiwanis Club of Sudbury treasurer Susan Ross. "Heather believes passionately that people from all walks of life be included in the musical experience. She encourages school bands and choirs. which include children who may not otherwise have an opportunity to receive some musical instruction.
"The delight on these children's faces when they perform at the Kiwanis Highlights concert in front of family and friends is a joy to see."
The Joan Mantle Music Trust
The Joan Mantle Music Trust was established in the fall of 2008 to help refresh, modernize and revitalize school music programs in the Rainbow District School Board.
The Trust allocates funding for musical instruments and equipment to selected schools on a rotating basis. The Trust also accepts the donation of new and used musical instruments and allocates them to schools in need. This ensures that there is an ongoing improvement in the condition of musical equipment throughout the board, allowing for students to achieve more in their musical studies together.
For more information about the International Dinner and the Joan Mantle Music Trust, visit www.rainbowschools.ca.
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The degree program consists of 22 credits, four of which are earned through the writing of a thesis based on original research. Each summer features four weeks of courses comprising nine credits. Courses will vary depending on faculty and current events. Below is a list of the courses that are likely to be offered over a two-summer period:
Scholars' Seminar – In this course, visiting scholars will present their work to the students. Each class session will feature a different, highly regarded legal scholar who has studied the judiciary. Students will be assigned in small groups to one class where they will be responsible for preparing a response to the presenter's paper and leading the class in discussion with the presenter following the actual presentation. We anticipate that the scholars will cover a range of different topics and techniques – from biography to quantitative analysis – but that all of the papers will relate to the study of judicial institutions.
Judges' Seminar – Similar in structure to the Scholars' Seminar, this course will focus on presentations by visiting judges who have had particularly unique experiences in their careers or courtrooms. For example, a prominent judge who has handled a high-publicity mass tort case would present on that experience and lead a discussion with students on how future similar cases might be handled based on that experience. Other examples include long-term international disputes, novel national security cases (Guantanamo, FISA), coping with large caseloads and diminished resources, etc. The purpose of these sessions would be to examine how judicial institutions and individual judges approach particularly complex or interesting problems. The sessions may suggest topics for further study, perhaps in the master's thesis.
Study of the Judiciary – This course will focus on the study of the judiciary, and will address empirical, biographical, and jurisprudential areas of inquiry. Students will read papers and evaluate studies on many aspects of the judiciary. Teaching will be divided among scholars with various perspectives on the study of the judiciary, including those who criticize certain approaches to the general field.
Methods – This course will focus on developing literacy in quantitative and formal analysis in the social sciences, including statistics, empirical evidence, and game theory. The course is designed for students without social science backgrounds and will provide a foundation for reading and interpreting statistics, studies, and other quantitative methods or evidence judges may encounter.
Finance for Judges – The purpose of this course is to familiarize sitting judges with the latest developments in finance in general and corporate finance in particular. Topics include the time value of money, valuation techniques, capital market efficiency, behavioral finance, options, derivatives, corporate capital structure, governance, and control transactions. The goal is to provide judges with information that will allow them to better understand reports and testimony of financial expert witnesses and to assess their credentials and evidence in Daubert Motions and related judicial proceedings.
Statutory and Constitutional Interpretation – This course will examine how judges do and should interpret statutes and constitutions, both in theory and in practice. Part of the course will focus on theories of statutory and constitutional interpretation, and part of the course will focus on empirical studies of how judges interpret statutes and constitutional texts in practice.
Institutions – This course will examine research on the design of optimal legal and judicial institutions. Topics covered will include the impact of different institutional structures (e.g., elected versus appointed judiciaries or common law versus civil law) on matters such as economic growth rates or levels of litigant satisfaction. In contrast to the Comparative Courts course mentioned above, where the focus will be more substantive, the focus here will be on the optimal design of key structural features.
Judicial Writing Workshop – Through this workshop, students will have the opportunity to study the opinion writing of judges famous for great writing. They will hear from visiting judges who are among today's best judicial writers. Finally, they will have the opportunity to submit one of their own opinions anonymously for evaluation by a workshop group in the class.
Advanced Research Methods – This short course will expand on the topics covered in the first year's Methods course, examining in particular some of the techniques that students might want to use in their thesis papers. This will be the occasion to consider whether a particular topic lends itself to empirical analysis, and, if so, of what kind (quantitative, survey, or other).
Thesis Preparation – This short course will include meetings with the student's thesis adviser, as well as opportunities to discuss thesis ideas with a small group of other students. Students will prepare a short but substantial proposal/introductory investigation into their thesis topic, which will be evaluated by other students and the thesis adviser.
National Security – This course will explore some of the most current and controversial issues in national security law. After discussing the two pivotal cases regarding presidential power, Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer (the Steel Seizure case) and United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation, the course will then focus on the detention of alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and the prosecution of alleged terrorists by military commissions. The course will conclude by examining the two prongs of the State Secrets Privilege, as well as the legal and policy issues regarding the United States' program for targeted killing using drones.
Foreign Relations – This course will cover the high points of foreign relations law—that is, the domestic constitutional, statutory, and common law principles that govern the interactions of the U.S. legal system with foreign actors and international law. Topics include foreign sovereign immunity, the Act of State doctrine, the scope of the federal treaty power, self-executing and non-self-executing treaties, the domestic status of customary international law and its use in suits under the Alien Tort Statute, the relation between domestic courts and supranational institutions, and preemption of state law bearing on foreign affairs.
Problems in Self-Regulation – This course will examine areas of law that explore the benefits and problems with self-regulating professions. Particular attention will be paid to the medical profession, but emphasis will be on the general theme of how and when the state should delegate regulatory authority to private parties.
Accuracy and Error in the Criminal Justice Process – Although most criminal defendants are properly found guilty of the crimes with which they are charged, in recent years a substantial number of persons have been found to be wrongly convicted. This course will examine decision making in the various stages of the criminal justice process: from police to prosecutors, to judges and to juries. Recent bodies of research in the social sciences provide insights about where and how decisions go right and sometimes go wrong and how errors in one stage of the process can contaminate other stages. The course will discuss research bearing on such matters as the dynamics of false confessions, eyewitness errors, tunnel vision and system justification. Case studies from Duke Law School's Wrongful Conviction Clinic will be used to illustrate these factors in action. Understanding of decision-making can improve process, including policy changes.
Administrative Law and the Courts – This course will examine how judges review administrative agencies. It will focus on the major doctrines that courts apply and consider empirical evidence regarding how those doctrines are applied in practice. The course will pay particular attention to regulation focusing on science, technology, and economics.
Foreign Law in U.S. Courts – U.S. judges are confronted with foreign law in a variety of situations – forum non conveniens, choice of law, recognition of foreign judgments, etc. This course serves as an introduction into how foreign law can, in these situations, be properly understood and applied. It thus serves also as an introduction to comparative law for U.S. judges.


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Zero, the supercomputer from Rollerball, looks 10,000 times cooler than most scifi computers of the 1970s, with their giant tape spools. But it suffers from that typical 60s and 70s problem — the crazy monotone freakout — when Rollerball champion Jonathan E. wants to ask for information about the Corporate Wars. It turns out even the "waters of history" get dammed up when they try to address corporate secrets. Click through for a clip of the crazy sports stunts that are what most people remember Rollerball for.
"Game? This wasn't meant to be a game! Never!" Rollerball was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid, with its Death Race-y dystopian take on the sports movie. I didn't even bother to see the recent remake, so I have no idea if it was as awful as I'd feared. When we finally get around to doing our listing of the top 10 dystopian skate movies, Rollerball will definitely be in the top five.


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- 1 The Nuclear Envelope During Cell Division
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Historical Background
- 1.3 Structure of the Nuclear Envelope
- 1.4 The Nuclear Envelope At the Onset of Mitosis
- 1.5 Breakdown of the Nuclear Envelope
- 1.6 Mitotic Functions of Nuclear Envelope Components
- 1.7 Reformation of the Nuclear Envelope
- 1.8 Remodeling of the Nuclear Envelope During Interphase
- 1.9 Open vs. Closed/Semi-closed Mitosis
- 1.10 Abnormalities in Nuclear Envelope Breakdown and Reformation
- 1.11 Current and Future Research
- 1.12 Glossary
- 1.13 Images
- 1.14 References
The Nuclear Envelope During Cell Division
The nuclear envelope is a highly specialised membrane that outlines the nucleus [1] and is a key physical compartment that defines eukaryotic cells. Hetzer's review (2010) describes it as a highly organised and regulated double membrane that compartmentalises the cell's genome. [2]
It is composed of two concentric membranes, the outer nuclear membrane and the inner nuclear membrane, which are joined by Nuclear Pore Complexes (NPC) that span both membranes. [3] The outer membrane is continuous with the membrane of the Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum (rER), [4] while the inner membrane is attached to the lamina (directly beneath the inner membrane) and chromatin of the nucleus. [3]
The nuclear envelope serves to maintain the structure of the nucleus and its position in the cell by providing anchoring sites for its attachment to the cell's cytoskeleton. [3] More importantly it serves to separate nuclear and cytoplasmic activities,[5] including transcription from translation, protecting genetic material from the highly metabolic environment of the cytoplasm. [6] It acts as a selective barrier between the cytoplasm and nuclear contents, with the NPCs contributing to this diffusion barrier by regulating the passage of proteins, RNA and ribonuleoprotein complexes in and out of the nucleus. [7] In addition, Hetzer's has pointed out in his review article (2010) that more recent studies have shown the inner membrane proteins to play various important roles in the function of the nucleus including chromatin organization, gene expression and DNA metabolism. [2]
Changes to the nuclear envelope's structure occur at the onset of mitosis, these changes are very slight in lower eukaryotes and in vertebrate cells result in the complete disassembly of the nuclear membrane, [8] this complete or partial breakdown is necessary in order to form the mitotic spindle on condensed chromosomes. [7] Higher eukaryotes must consequently reassemble nuclear envelopes round the genetic material of the daughter cells each time a cell divides in order to re-establish the nuclear compartment. [2] This page aims to explore the process of the breakdown and reassembly of the nuclear envelope and its role in cell division.
Historical Background
Brief Timeline of Historical Research On The Nuclear Envelope
Structure of the Nuclear Envelope
The nuclear envelope (NE) is an important structure that covers the nucleus with a double membrane. The prominent constituents of the NE include the nuclear lamina, nuclear pore complexes (NPCs) and nuclear membranes [9] . The nuclear membrane is made up of distinctive but unified domains: the outer nuclear membrane and the inner nuclear membrane [10] It is the small pore membranes that join the INM with the outer ONM together and the double membrane is separated by an intermembrane space. Moreover, the NE forms a partition between the nucleus and the cytoplasm and also allows attachment sites for structures such as the cytoskeleton to the nuclear periphery [11] [12]
Outer Nuclear Membrane
Structurally Continuous with and comparable in composition to the peripheral endoplasmic reticulum is the outer nuclear membrane. [13] [14]
Inner Nuclear Membrane
The Inner Nuclear membrane (INM), neighbouring with the endoplasmic reticulum membrane, is connected with the lamina and the chromatin [15]. It is in close contact with the genetic material of the nucleus and has various proteins attached to it. These proteins are manufactured on the rough endoplasmic reticulum and have important implication in human diseases which will be discussed later. [16] In recent years there has been an increase in the number of discoveries of various INM proteins mainlydue to the proteomic and computational approaches. [17] One such group of proteins include transmembrane proteins that are associated with the INM and they usually interact with chromatin and/or lamina. [18]
It is thought that these transmemberane proteins direct the chromatin to the membrane; this is essential during the reformation of the NE after mitosis. [19] Furthermore, important intermediate proteins called lamins are attached with one another to form 10nm-diameter filaments and these lamins make up an important network called the nuclear lamina. This structure, the Nuclear Lamina, is important because it not only supplies rigidity to the nucleus but also has other roles in the cell [20] [21] Ulbert et al.(2006), through their research on transmemberane proteins, have illustrated that interaction of Lem2 with chromatin or lamins are crucial to the maintenance of NE. Ulbert et al. (2006) have also demonstrated that (from the interaction of Lem2 and its partners) that this transmemberane protein has an essential function in the structural integrity of NE . Furthermore, a reduction in the transmemberane protein leads to aggregation of cells with deformed nuclei and ultimately cell death. [22]
Nuclear Lamina
Nuclear Pore Complexes
One of the most essential components of the NE are the Nuclear Pore Complexes (NPCs) which are embedded in the nuclear envelope and they are necessary for proper cell functioning since they control the entrance and exit of macromolecules between the nucleus to the cytoplasm. [23] [24] The NPCs are composed of numerous copies of ~30 nucleoporins and span the nuclear envelope at junctions of the inner and outer nuclear membranes. [25] [26] The NPC has an estimate mass of 125MD in vertebrates and in a yeast, the NPC is found to have approximately 100nm ringed-shaped diameter. The NPC also has a central channel that is about 30nm in diameter. [27]
Moreover, as reviewed in DeGrasse et al. (2009), the NPC in eukaryotes have eight spokes around the central tube which serves as the medium for the bidirectional movement of macromolecules. [28] As reviewed in Akey (1985), it is thought that the NPCs have structural plasticity as its flexible nuclear pore diameter assists with the movement of specific macromolecules. [29]
Figure 1. Schematic view of model adopted for the NPC/NE system[30]
The Nuclear Envelope At the Onset of Mitosis
Breakdown of the Nuclear Envelope
The breakdown of the nuclear envelope only occurs in higher eukaryotes/metazoans like plants and animals. The entry of a cell into mitosis (prophase) is defined by this loss of compartmentalisation of the nuclear content [2] and it not only involves the removal of the inner and outer nuclear membranes but also the disassembly of the underlying lamina and NPCs. [31] These organisms form spindle microtubules which are located in the cytoplasm and are vital in mitosis for the segregation of chromosomes, therefore the disassembly of the nuclear envelope is required in order for these microtubules to gain access to the kinetochores of the chromosomes. [31]
Reviews by Kutay and Hetzer (2008) describe the breakdown of the nuclear envelope as involving three key processes: the disassembly of NPCs and the subsequent increase in nuclear envelope permeability, the depolymerisation and consequent breakdown of the nuclear lamina and then the disassociation of the nuclear envelope from the chromatin. [8]
The Disassembly of the Nuclear Pore Complexes
One of the initial steps in the breakdown of the nucleus is the disassembly of the NPCs through the loss of nucleoporins (Nups), [2] which are removed in the form of nucleoporin sub-complexes and are released into the mitotic cytoplasm. [32]
It has been observed that this process is very rapid in living mammalian cells [33] and removes the permeability barrier of the nuclear envelope resulting in the mixing of nuclear and cytoplasmic components. [34] Studies of living mammalian cells and starfish oocytes reveal that the first Nups to clearly disassociate from the NPCs is Nup98. [33] [35] Nup98 is a peripheral nucleoporin that is found symmetrically on both sides of the NPC with GLFG-type FG repeats that are thought to be important in the formation of the NPC permeability barrier. [34]
The Depolymerisation of the Nuclear Lamina
The Disassociation of the Nuclear Envelope From Chromatin
The Dispersal of Nuclear Envelope Components into the Endoplasmic Reticulum
Mitotic Functions of Nuclear Envelope Components
Reformation of the Nuclear Envelope
Remodeling of the Nuclear Envelope During Interphase
Open vs. Closed/Semi-closed Mitosis
Mitosis is the process by which eukaryotic cells divide to form two equal daughter cells each with a copy of its genome. [36] Typically eukaryotic cells undergo one of the two forms of mitosis; higher eukaryotes (metazoans) go through Open Mitosis, while lower eukaryotes including yeast and other types of fungi undergo Closed Mitosis. [37] The distinction between open and closed mitosis can be made by focusing on the behaviour of the nuclear envelope which separates the nuclear contents from the cytoplasm and is split to form daughter nuclei. [36] Open mitosis is so named because the nuclear envelope completely breaks down at the transition from G2 to M stage of the cell cycle [37] and the nuclear content, including the genetic material, is "open" to mix with cytoplasmic macromolecules [38] until the nuclear envelope is reassembled after chromosomal segregation during telophase/G1. [37] [38] In contrast, during closed mitosis the nuclear envelope remains intact and mitosis continues within the nucleus resulting in the fission of the nuclear envelope after chromosomal segregation. [36]
However, classification of mitosis in eukaryotes into open or closed forms can be limiting as some organisms have been found to have varying extents of nuclear envelope breakdown and the timing of the breakdown can also be atypical of open mitosis. [36] [37] For example, a study conducted by Paddy et.al. (1996) on early Drosophila embryos, using time-resolved 3D fluorescence light microscopy imaging, showed that there was an abnormally long period during mitosis where a large fraction of lamins remained intact and localised around the periphery of the nucleus. This semi-disassembled envelope persisted long into metaphase spindle formation and eventually the lamins dispersed just before chromosomal segregation. They also observed an extensive series of structural rearrangements in the lamina which appeared to be linked to or driven by the movements of chromosomes and spindle microtubules. Paddy and peers (1996) state that this behaviour isn't characteristic of neither open nor closed mitosis but instead appears to be of an intermediate form, [39] one of semi-open mitosis until after metaphase. [36]
In open mitosis the entire nuclear envelope, including the NPCs, breakdown allowing the formation of the spindles on the chromosomes [5] as well as their interaction with cytoplasmic macromolecules needed for mitosis. This means that the transport of molecules in and out of the nucleus through NPCs is not required during open mitosis. [40] In contrast, the nuclear envelope of eukaryotes undergoing closed mitosis remains intact, with the continual function of its NPCs that are important in maintaining the connection between the nucleus and cytoplasm so that tubulin and proteins, that are necessary for the regulation of entry into mitosis, are allowed to enter the nucleus. [37]
The importance of the maintenance of the NPCs in closed mitosis is evident in a study conducted by Louk et.al (2002) where fluorescent microscopy was used to analyse the nuclear envelope and NPCs of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. They found a link between components of yeast NPCs and the mitotic checkpoint machinery, showing that the Mad1p and Mad2p proteins, required for the establishment of the spindle checkpoint, were mostly found at NPCs throughout the cell cycle. These proteins were previously found to be associated with nucleoporin sub-complexes made up of Nup53p, Nup59p and Nup170p. Further investigation conducted in this study showed that the association of Mad proteins with NPCs particularly required Mad1p and that Nup53p was responsible for ensuring the connection between the Mad1p-Mad2p complex and the NPCs. They observed that once the spindle checkpoint was activated, a build up of Mad2p at the kinetochores occurred which coincided with the hyperphosphorylation of Mad1p mediated by Nup53. These observations led Louk and his peers to suggest a model where the association of Mad1p to Nup53p-containing NPCs traps Mad2p until it is primed for release by the spindle checkpoint activation. In addition they suggest that the bond between Nup53p and Mad1p has a role in the aid of transport through the nuclear envelope. [41]
Abnormalities in Nuclear Envelope Breakdown and Reformation
Current and Future Research
Mislocalization of nuclear and cytoplasmic components
Lamina: a dense network of fibres composed of intermediate filaments made up of lamin proteins and lamin-associated proteins [42]
Nuclear Pore Complex (NPC): Very large protein complexes spanning through the outer nuclear and inner nuclear membranes creating gated channels that allow for transport of substances between the cytoplasm and nucleus [43]
Ribonuleoprotein complexes:
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- ↑ Evans D, Hutchison C & Bryant J (2004) The Nuclear Envelope, Garland Science/BIOS Scientific Publishers, New York
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Beef Ribs From 'Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook' Recipe
The four partners from the London BBQ restaurant Pitt Cue Co. are serious about their meat. In the new (to the U.S.) Pitt Cue Co.: The Cookbook, they strongly encourage home cooks to get serious, too, and for these outstanding beef ribs, they stress, "The quality of the beef here is everything". I tried to get high-quality meat, but I can't say it was the rare-breed, dry-aged beef that they extol. Nonetheless, this recipe turned out unctuous, crazy flavorful ribs. It is one of the simpler preparations in the book, requiring only the ribs and the house rub; sauce is optional and unnecessary. The rub—smoky, spicy and sweet—shows up in many of their recipes, including tomorrow's smoked roast chicken, which is good, because you end up with a lot of it. (Actually, I rubbed it over a pile of chicken wings to stretch the meal for a crowd, and lordy, they were good!) And they suggest serving these ribs with some of those dynamite pickled shiitakes that I raved about yesterday. This is a great example of how you kind of have to commit to the book as a whole, because so many of the recipes interconnect and share components.
Why I picked this recipe: Um, do you see the picture? I wanted to eat that. Also, it had minimal elements and *only* took 6 hours. And because I'm not super-skilled at the grill, I liked that they said the ribs could live through some fluctuation in temperature.
What worked: The rub was delicious. Want to rub it on everything. The fatty ribs responded so well to the long smoking, and the flavor of the two together was intense and worthwhile.
What didn't: Maybe it was the particular cut of ribs, or perhaps my grill temp dipped too low at times (I kept peeking), but the ribs could have used a little longer. They were not as tender as they could have been had the collagen in the meat been given more time to break down into gelatin (see, I learned things!). But they do say that the cooking times are very loose guides, so I'll take the fall on this one.
Suggested tweaks: If you're not terribly handy with a butcher's knife, when you buy your ribs, see if the butcher will take off the membrane for you. It really was a bit of a pain to remove, as they do forewarn. And make one of the sauces that they suggest, or buy your favorite bottle, but know that the ribs are perfectly delicious all on their own.
- Yield:Serves 2
- Active time: 15 minutes
- Total time:5 to 6 hours
- One 4- to 6-bone beef rib rack, weighing 1 pound 2 ounces to 1 pound 5 ounces
- 1/3 cup House Rub
- Mother Sauce or Pitt Cue Barbecue Sauce, (optional)
Crucial to the eating of the beef rib is the removal of the membrane on the underside, especially with a well-aged rib. Unlike the pork rib membrane, which is fresh and thin, the membrane on the underside of the beef rib is thick and a bit of a pain. To remove it, score down each side of the individual bones, being careful not to cut into the flesh. Get a proper butcher's knife with some flexibility and work up the rib, removing the membrane with as little flesh as possible. Try to keep the knife as flat as you can to the flesh, just skinning the membrane from it. The removed membrane should be about 3/4 inch wide and run the entire length of each rib. All that will remain is a small section of membrane on the rib bone itself, which is a fair compromise.
Cover the rack all over with the rub. Prepare a barbecue for smoking and set the temperature to 230°F, though anything up to 265°F will produce tasty beef ribs.
There is a huge amount of fat running through the intercostal muscles of the beef rib, which can take a bit of a battering through temperature rises without drying out: 230°F is ideal, but don't panic if the barbecue peaks and dips in temperature.
Smoke the rack for 5 to 6 hours, or until the meat has pulled back from the bone. By then the rack will have the French trim effect, with the bone a little bit exposed. The internal temperature should be about 192° to 197°F, the meat squishy and soft with a thick dark crust. We like the ribs naked, but if you prefer them with sauce, give them a good basting with Mother Sauce or barbecue sauce 30 minutes before removing them. Alternatively adjust the barbecue for direct grilling and paint them constantly with the sauce while turning them over the heat.
The smell of a newly smoked beef rib is unbelievable. Serve immediately, with some Pickled Shiitake to boost that amazing umami beefiness while balancing the richness.
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Been educating myself, doing night courses and reading books by Seth Godin. Am worried that my target audience 'can't get enough of me'. The new branding rules dictate that I should make every part of my brand available to all my consumers across all touchpoints, and once I've built it, 'they will come'. Y'ulle know you can follow my every move on twitter, right? Is that not enough?
"No matter how many battles I been in and won
No matter how many magazines on my nuts
No matter how many MC's I eat up
Ooh ooh, it's never enough" – Eminem
Been considering adopting contemporary strategies to amplify my consumer touch-points, such as filling in '25 random things you didn't know about me' and telling y'ulle to forward it on to everyone you know. Would that be enough for you? Would filling your inbox with the minutae of my minutae make you feel 'connected and close' to me?
Maybe I'll randomly search Wikipedia pages and google images and then tag y'ulle in 'Album Artwork'. Because random images with random words on them is totally the coolest, raddest most innovative innovation ever, right? And doing it will totally make us better friends / give you more ownership of my personal brand. Wish I'd thought of it first.
Or maybe I'll answer questions using my iTunes music playlist, and then tag y'ulle in it so I get to brag about my enlightened taste in music AND talk about myself for 10 pages (if you paste the email into MSWord).
"More and more and more" – some techno band from the 90s
Should I make a facebook app that y'ulle can spam your friends with? I will call it MyBrandedCircleofTopFriendsTM©® and if you add it I'd basically own you and spam you with facts like 'Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla'. ❤ owning stuff, is my best. ❤ vanilla.
And even if you find 25 random facts about me annoying, you can always sympathise with how desperate I am to be 'unique' and how desperate I am for you to see me as your higly unique and interesting friend, that I'd FWD you an excuse to talk about myself and my enlightened musical choices that include radiohead, MGMT, crystal castles, Perfect Circle, CSS and that guitar dude from Deep Purple whose new album is called something like Professor Snatchifunkius or something.
Whatever y'ulle. You just let me know if you need more random, narcissistic info disguised as a friendship-bond-building exercise. I understand if it's 'never enough'. BFFs 4 eva y'ulle. 4eva is not enough.
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Motherhood & creating jewelry make it hard to have nice nails. I just did a glitter ombre effect to my nails a few days ago and sad to say they've almost completely chipped off. I am way too hard on my hands, but seriously can't help it. I should go and get a professional manicure so it would last longer. Any of these would be nice!
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- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2011
I'm freaking out over that one on the bottom left, so cute. Totally softens up how harsh black nails can be.ReplyDelete
thank you, i am now going to go home and glam up my nails a bit, i'm thinking a little glitter myself, like in your previous post, but the french mani-colors would be cute too!ReplyDelete
I have repinned every single one of your nail pins. Love them. I have been practicing the ombré thing and have had an extremely high usage of nail polish remover over the last few days. Getting close I think. How long it will last is another story.ReplyDelete
love these! thanks for posting. love the matte black/glossy black french manicure one. they are all really great.i really like your glitter ones you posted the other day. but yes, no time or patience for my nails. i work in a lab and wash my hands like crazy.ReplyDelete
i'm so digging fun nails of late. the "orange" manicure pushed me out of my comfort zone...big time ;-)ReplyDelete
I tried the black on black with no success, I need steady hands!!ReplyDelete
I've pretty much got the same issue and I blame it on our lack of a dishwasher. Sometimes it feels like all I do is dishes. Someone told me to buff them first and that seems to help!ReplyDelete
YAY! I LOVE THESE!! Just shared on my site - can not wait to try these!! So inspired, thanks for posting!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2011
This is beautiful. I love the coffee and beige huesReplyDelete
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Located 45 miles east of Omaha, Neb., in rural Iowa, the Creighton University Retreat Center is situated on 154 wooded acres on the Nishnabotna River. Retreatants immerse themselves in a quiet, prayerful environment filled with wildlife, song birds, hiking trails, three prayer gardens and a glorious night sky. The center's mission is to support and foster an active prayer life and a deeper conversion and relationship with Jesus Christ.
Open year-round, the retreat center offers individual eight-day and 30-day directed retreats based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola. The center also welcomes individuals and groups for their own private retreats and presents a variety of additional preached retreats and other programs.
The comfortable accommodations boast excellent meeting and conference rooms, private direction rooms, overnight facilities, a dining hall and a chapel where Mass is celebrated daily. Retreatants have the option of cooking meals for themselves, but they may prefer eating in the dining room, as the center's food is one of the reasons groups come back year after year.
As a department of Creighton University, the Creighton University Retreat Center serves Creighton students, faculty, staff and alumni. The center also welcomes all others seeking a place of rest or retreat, including religious, parishes, school groups, organizations and private individuals. For those looking for a retreat close to Omaha or Des Moines, few places are as beautiful, peaceful and accommodating.


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